Bug 742251 – I propose to split stage3 into rstage3 and bstage3

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Release Media

[Description Einstok Fair 2020-09-13 03:11:51 UTC]

Not all systems require installed compiler to function
(some of them require only package manager to install binary packages).

I propose to split stage3 tarball into two different tarballs. This logically follows EAPI-7 separation of RDEPEND and BDEPEND.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Einstok Fair 2020-09-13 03:27:44 UTC]

and also, separate @system set into @system and @buildtools

[Comment 2 Ionen Wolkens 2020-09-13 03:37:33 UTC]

Stage only means needing to run `emerge --depclean --with-bdeps=n` to cleanup, is it really worth its own tarball for every main profiles, mirrored and everything? Also while considering that not many users need this.

Not that it's up to me.

gcc/binutils/etc... does have to stay either way given it's used for checks and other non-compiling tasks. Making those optional would require some major reviewing anyhow, can't casually removing things from @system.

[Comment 3 Einstok Fair 2020-09-13 04:22:49 UTC]

And premerge checks should be separated into pre-compile-time checks and pre-install-time checks.

[Comment 4 Matt Turner 2020-09-13 18:44:27 UTC]

This is kind of asking for a large set of different things and is done in a low effort way.